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The Black Rock AKA Irish Commemorative Stone on Bridge Street, with plaque. One of the last traces of old Victoriatown. Goose Village (French: Village-aux-Oies, pronounced [vilaʒ oz‿wa]) was a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its official but less commonly used name was Victoria town, [3] [4] [5] after the adjacent Victoria Bridge.
D Victoria Bridge was built as a one-track tubular bridge which opened in 1860. It was the first bridge to cross the St. Lawrence River, and the longest bridge in the world. It was rebuilt as a two-track truss bridge in 1898. The South Y approach was rebuilt around the Saint-Lambert locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1961. [5]
According to the Quebec Toponymy Commission, the street is named after Mount Royal. A 1761 map shows a trail at the location of the current street called chemin des Sauvages de la montagne. It is also found under the name chemin de la Montagne in later maps, such as the map by surveyor Jean Péladeau in 1778. [1] Rue de la Montagne, downtown.
Notre-Dame Street West A bridge over the Lachine Canal between Little Burgundy and Pointe Saint-Charles For an article about the medieval Landgraviate, see Landgraviate of Burgundy Little Burgundy ( French : Petite-Bourgogne , pronounced [pətit buʁɡɔɲ] ) is a neighbourhood in the South West borough of the city of Montreal , Quebec , Canada .
Route 134 is a highway in the province of Quebec, running from Candiac on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal, crossing the river on Jacques Cartier Bridge. On the South Shore, Route 134 is named Taschereau Boulevard (boulevard Taschereau), after the prominent Quebec family that included former premier Louis-Alexandre ...
Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are around 250,000 Montrealers of Italian ancestry living within its Metropolitan Area. Montreal's Little Italy, located on St. Lawrence Boulevard between Jean-Talon and St. Zotique, is home to Montreal's original Italian Canadian community. Although many Italians ...
The bridge crosses Saint Helen's Island in the centre of the river, where offramps allow access to the Parc Jean-Drapeau and La Ronde amusement park. Originally named the Montreal Harbour Bridge (pont du Havre), it was renamed in 1934 [3] to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's first voyage up the St. Lawrence River.
A-25 has one toll bridge, which is the first modern toll in the Montreal area and one of two overall in Quebec (after being joined by the A-30 toll bridge, which opened in 2012). A-25 begins at an interchange with A-20 and Route 132 in Longueuil and quickly enters the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel into the east end of Montreal.